I finally have some time today to upgrade my web server from the Pi 4 to Pi 5. I was using the SanDisk 128GB SD card for my Pi 4 server, it was really stable and did not fail for really long time. I was thinking should I continue to use the same SD card or upgrade to a SSD for my Pi 5. Recently there are a lot of sales going on, so I decided to try using a SSD to improve the speed and the long term stability. The setup was really quick and I really need to shout out to the updraftplus plugin for WordPress. It helped me a lot on the backup and restore for this blog. Everyone should give it a try if you wanna have a simple and easy backup/restore solution for your WordPress site!

Updates on 2023-11-14

Finally

Updates on 2023-11-12

Finally it’s reached in SG.

Finally the preorder is up. Ordered one 4GB and one 8GB. Should I upgrade my Pi 4 server to Pi 5? 🤔

Very impressive image sensor. Did not expect a RAW file from a phone camera to bring back so much details.

Finally my Parallels subscription ended yesterday. It is a really good virtualisation software on ARM Mac, but also it comes with a really high price tag. Base on my use case, I really dont see the needs of it, some open source alternative is good enough. UTM has come a long way and its totally free! Time to switch to UTM and save some $$. 🙂

Recently I discovered this game streaming solution. It really is a huge upgrade over the Steam Remote Play. The latency is really low even streaming over my mobile network. So, I don’t need to bring my Steam Deck outside maybe? 😂

It’s been so long since the last time went to Japan. Finally I’m back in one of my favorite places.

Used Pelican static site generator for blogging for a good few months. It was really fast and easy to use, but there is one down side, its very difficult to post something on my phone. So, I decided to come back and use WordPress. Its not as fast as static site, but its a lot easier when I just wanna quick post something using my phone.

Setting it up is also very easy. At first, I wanted to try using docker to save some time on preparing the LNMP stack on my Pi. In the end I found that Its not as straight forward as I thought if I wanna enable SSL for my site because Namecheap doesn’t support LetsEncrypt. So I went back to the good old LNMP way, a simple and quick setup and the site is back up in less than 30mins.

It’s annoying that Namecheap doesn’t support Certbot to create and auto renew Let’s Encrypt SSL Cert.

I will document the steps needed to renew SSL cert manually using DNS Challenge.

Step 1 – Install Certbot:

sudo apt install certbot

Step 2 – Renew certificate using Certbot:

Replace *.DOMAIN to your domain name.

sudo certbot certonly --manual --preferred-challenges dns -d "*.DOMAIN"

Step 3 – Replace DNS TXT ACME Challenge in Namecheap:

Verify the setting using nslookup before continuing on Certbot.

nslookup -type=TXT _acme-challenge.DOMAIN

Final step – Restart NGINX and verify:

If the above are done correctly, the cert should be renewed by now. Restart NGINX for the new SSL cert to take effect.

sudo systemctl restart nginx